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Earth’s Gigantic Living Wonders: From a 77-Sq-Mile Seagrass to a Vast Underground Fungus
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Earth’s Gigantic Living Wonders: From a 77-Sq-Mile Seagrass to a Vast Underground Fungus

A tour of Earth’s six largest living things: a 77-square-mile Shark Bay seagrass meadow—the largest plant; the 2,385-acre Humongous Fungus in Oregon; the blue whale, the largest animal; the General Sherman tree; the Pando aspen clone; and the corpse flower, highlighting how these organisms achieve their extraordinary scale and longevity.

Giant 35,000-Ton Organism May Be Earth's Largest
science1 year ago

Giant 35,000-Ton Organism May Be Earth's Largest

The humongous fungus in Oregon, known as Armillaria ostoyae, is the largest organism on Earth by mass, spanning 2,385 acres and weighing around 35,000 tons, primarily existing as an underground network of mycelium that plays a crucial role in decomposing organic matter and recycling nutrients, with debates ongoing about its true size and the definition of an organism.